Peter McLaren (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Peter McLaren (politician)
- Peter McLaren (September 21, 1833 – May 23, 1919) was a Canadian politician. Born in Lanark, Upper Canada, he was the son of James McLaren, an immigrant from Scotland.
- He married Sophia, the daughter of William Lees.
- McLaren was involved in the timber trade and operated sawmills in Carleton Place and at McLaren's depot on the Kingston and Pembroke Railway line as well as in Alberta.
- In 1881, the Ontario government passed the Rivers and Streams Act, mainly due to a dispute between McLaren and a rival lumber company over access to McLaren's timber slides on the Mississippi River.
- The Act was disallowed by John Alexander Macdonald, leading to a dispute over jurisdiction between the Mowat government in Ontario and the federal government.
- However, in 1884, the Act was upheld by the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in McLaren v.
- Caldwell.McLaren was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1890 on the advice of John Alexander Macdonald representing the senatorial division of Perth, Ontario.
- A Conservative, he served 29 years until his death in Perth in 1919.
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